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Nintendo Switch hits 61.4 million sold, Animal Crossing tops 22.4 million

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo has sold more than 61.4 million Switch hybrid game consoles and more than 22.4 million copies of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. As these big numbers suggest, the Japanese company is the latest to benefit from gamers sheltering in place during the pandemic.

Nintendo shared the news today in its earnings report for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30. Nintendo has sold more than 406.7 million copies of software for the Switch. In the quarter, Nintendo sales hit $3.39 billion, up 108.1% from the same quarter a year ago. Net income was $1.0 billion, up 514.3% from a year ago. Software sales were up 23% in the quarter to 50.43 million copies sold.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.